The Traffic Team plays a critical role in GitHub's scalability and resiliency. GitHub s Traffic team is responsible for every packet into and out of GitHub s edge and delivers a foundational load balancing platform for all of its services. The team s objective is to ensure that GitHub continues to operate industry-leading services at global scale, and to ensure internal engineering teams have the tools and processes necessary to build on top of our platform with as little friction as possible.

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Traffic Team, you will work closely with a distributed, diverse, and passionate team of engineers to improve and maintain part of the platform that millions of developers worldwide rely on in their software development cycle.

The Traffic Team is highly distributed, and you will thrive in an environment of remote work and asynchronous communication. You re expected to have strong written communication skills and be able to develop working relationships with coworkers in locations around the globe. As an engineer at GitHub, you ll always be challenged to solve interesting and novel problems that have a real impact on how the world builds software.

Responsibilities

Lead technical decision making and architecture
Design and implement scalable, reliable and performant solutions for complex problems like rate-limiting, routing, etc.
Maintain and improve the GitHub Load Balancer, and other systems related to traffic management at GitHub
Write, review, and maintain code primary in Go and Ruby & Rails
Mentor other engineers in their technical and architectural decision making
Participate in the on-call rotation, and team meetings

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

9+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
- OR Associate s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
- OR Bachelor s Degree in Computer Science or related field AND 7+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
- OR Master s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.
- OR Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.
- OR equivalent experience.
4+ years building and supporting large, high traffic applications at scale within platform/infrastructure domains
4+ years supporting and building cloud native workloads in Azure, AWS or Google Cloud
2+ years experience maintaining a Load Balancer with proven experience in abuse protection mechanisms for DDoS attacks, load shedding, etc.

Preferred Qualifications: